Seat-attaching device.



H. KAMRASS.

SEAT ATTACHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-9.1918.

1 ,276,66 1 Patented Aug. 20, 1918.

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HARRIS KAMB-ASS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SEAT-ATTACHING DEVICE.

Application filed January 9, 1918.

To all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, Harms KAMRASS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented 'a new and Improved Seat-Attaching Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to furniture, and its object. is to provide a new and improved attaching device more especially designed for securely and quickly attaching upholstered or plain seats to the seat frame of a chair without the aid of skilled labor. Another object is to enable the owner of a chair to remove a broken or injured seat and replace the same by a new one.

In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made of a series of resilient holding members preferably made of spring wire,

' and each adapted to bear at one end on the under side of the seat and at the other end on the under side of the seat frame, and connecting members adapted to be held on and depending from the seat and each engaging a corresponding holding member intermediate the ends thereof.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views;

Figure 1 is an under side view of a chair provided with the attaching device for holding an upholstered seat to the seat frame;

Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same on the line 22 of F 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the resilient holding members and a link for holding an upholstered seat in position on the seat frame;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the connecting members used for attaching a plain or a non-upholstered seat to a seat frame in conjunction with a corresponding holding member; and

Fig. 5 is an inverted tion of the seat.

The seat attaching device consists of a plurality of resilient holdin members 10 and connecting links 11, an each holding plan view of a por- V member 10 is preferably formed of a piece of spring wire bent to provide a spring coil 12 intermediate its ends. The outer portion of each holding member 10 is provided with an angular arm 13 engaging the under side Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au ean, 1918.

Serial H0. 211,033.

of the seat frame 14 of the chair 15 having a detachable seat 16 to be fastened in place by the attaching devices. minates in a point 17 forced into the under side of the seat frame 14 to hold the holding member against outward or inward movement. The portion 18 of the holding member 10 between the coil 12 and the arm 13 is bent upward adjacent the inner side of the seat frame 14, as plainly indicated in Fig. 2, so as to locate the inner portion of the holding member a short distance from the under side of the seat 16. The holding member 10 terminates at its inner end with an upwardly bent arm 19 which terminates in a horizontal arm 20 resting against the under side of the seat 16. a

The link 11 is made in two forms, as plainly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, of which the form illustrated in Fig. 3 is for use on seats 16 which are upholstered. while the form of the link shown in Fig. l is for plain wooden seats or pressed unuphol'stered seats.

' The link 11 shown in Fig. 3 is in the form of a piece of wire doubled up to provide at its lower end an eye 25 engaging the holding mmnber 10 intermediate the coil 12 and the upwardly extending arm 19. The upper end of the link 11 has its and bent in opposite directions to provide a head 26 adapted to rest on top of the seat lfi'underneath the upholstering, the shank of the link extend ing through keyholes 27 formed in the seat 16. The link shown in Fig. 4 comprises a shank 30 adapted to pass through the an upholstered seat. It will be noticed that.

The arm 13 ter-,

the parts are so proportioned that the spring coil 12 is under tension and consequently the holding members are not liable to shift and securely hold the seat 16 to the seat frame 14. As shown in Fig. 1, four attaching devices are used for holdin frame. but it is evident that two, three or more holding members may be used to accomplish the desired result.

The attaching device shown and described the seat to the is very simple and durable in construction 7 E stered or other seal to the frame Wibhon Cir and can be ch nly manufactured owner a chair can readily remove n bro or an injured seat and by the use of the taching device can ren y secure an noluse of screws or nails and without, producing undesirable projections on the top of the seat.

it will also be noticed that by the use of M the keyhole openings 2? the heads 2'8 and 51 can be passed up through the end of the keyhole from underneath the sent in engage the shank of *che ill or 30 with narrow porlion of the keyhole. Thus the upholstery need not be disturbed when pine mg a link in place on the seat, or removing it therefrom. 1

thns described my mrention, 1 claim as new end desire'to secure by Letters Patent:-

l. A attaching device, compris-' ing a nlnrelity of holding members each made oi spring Wire ionned intermediate its ends into a coil, one end of each holding 5 member being adapted to rest on the under side of the chair heme and the other end being adapted to bear on the under side of the seat and a link adapted to extend through the seat and having a head atits npner end adapted to rest; on ehe upper surface of seen, the lower end of the link having en engaging means loosely engaging a holding member inter-medians 2. A chair attaching device, comnrie e plurality of holding members 7 ch made of spring Wire formed ermefiiete its ends into n coil one end of member having an nngnler erm adapted "to rest on the under side of the chair frame and the other end having an arm ndapted to bear on the underside of the seat, and a link ban 21 head at its upper end adapted to rest, on the upper surface of the sent, the lower end of the linl: baring an eye engaging holding member adjacent the said coil;

3. A chair seat attaching device, comprising a plurality of holding members adapted to hold a seetin position on the seat frame each holding member being ece of spring Wire bent: to

' coil intermediate its ends, each end liming an angular bearing member, of which the onter'beering member is adapted to rest againsl the under side of the chair frame and terminates in a point adapted to be driven into the chair frame, the inner bearing member resting against the under side of the seat, and links one for each holding member and extending through the seen, each link having a head resting on top of the seat and having an eye engaging the holding member adjecenbits coil.

1-. A chair seat attaching device, consisting of a piece of spring wire bent to form a coil intermediate of its ends, one end of the Wire being bent npwardly and then laterally and the other end being bent downwardly end terminating in an angular and pointed nrni, end a linlr having a head at one end ab other an eye through which loosely the end of the Wire which has one lateral eirni.

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